Dictyonema Shales, Scania, Sweden ( of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (56.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 16.7° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dictyonema Shale Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Lower Tremadoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, pyritic shale

• Dark "alum", pyritic, and baritic shales

Primary reference: T. E. Tjernvik. 1958. The Tremadocian beds at Flagboro in south-eastern Scania (Sweden). Geologiska Foereningens i Stockholm Foerdhandlingar 80:259-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3109: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 25.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp.
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Clonograptus sp.
Clonograptus sp. Nicholson 1873 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Bryograptus sp., Adelograptus sp.
Bryograptus sp. graptolite
Adelograptus sp. Bulman 1941 graptolite
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
? Ceratiocaris sp.
? Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Orthothecidae
Orthotheca sp.
Orthotheca sp. Novak 1886
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
 Lingulida - Elkaniidae
Broeggeria sp.
Broeggeria sp. Walcott 1902
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848